Use-after-free in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-53262
Published: June 26, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU135484
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-53262
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerability exists due to use-after-free in pppol2tp_ioctl() when processing ioctl requests while a concurrent socket close frees the associated l2tp_session after a controllable sleep during copy_from_user(). A local user can trigger a userfaultfd-assisted page fault sleep and race a socket close to dereference a stale session pointer to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.
Exploitation requires local access to issue the ioctl and induce the race condition.
How to mitigate CVE-2026-53262
Install security update from vendor's repository.